Dan Civico’s contribution
to Design Event 09was the video installation 'Hope' running in a 3-minute loop in a Newcastle city-centre
storefront.At the time local
car maker Nissan had announced substantial redundancies, and Dan’s
response was to postulate on “what
do the robots do when the factory is quiet? “ and to suggest one
scenario to be this interaction between an ‘inspector’ robot and an
‘apprentice’ robot.

AitM provided robots and
programming.The robots were
programmed to run in their own continuous, interleaving cycles thus making it
very easy to do repeat shots of differing perspective, further simplifying the
edit.